Die Hard Is The Sequel To The Book Seven Samurai Wrote On Action | CineFix Top 100

“Welcome to the party, pal!” Die Hard landed in 1988 among a murderer’s row of great movies and came out of it as perhaps the most iconic of them all. It was a coming out party for Bruce Willis the action star and Alan Rickman the villain and invented a whole new sub-genre of bottle episode action cinema. Clint, Cal and Alex discuss how John McTiernan learned all the right things from Akira Kurosawa action, why the movie doesn’t matter if it isn’t about marriage and how Alex can’t keep holding her grudge against the movie. Meanwhile, Dan’s algorithm doesn’t ever want to hear about the Die Hard / Christmas movie debate again... CineFix Top 100's FIRST T-SHIRT IS HERE - https://store.ign.com/products/cinefix-this-is-how-i-win-t-shirt - Get the Ikiru / Uncut Gems mash-up you never knew you needed until right this very moment! CineFix Top 100 was created by Clint Gage and Dan Parkhurst and is produced by Tayo Oyekan, with Director of Photography, Jamie Parslow and Technical Producers, Marhyan Franzen and Amir Rakib. Our Executive Producers are Clint Gage and Corrado Caretto. Logo and graphic design by Eric Sapp and title animations by Casey Redmon. CineFix Top 100 is available on all your podcast networks including: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/02lznfKZ2gCnBwFoTgKlYr Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinefix-top-100/id1693413490 Amazon Music https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/80256cff-2174-4d69-a9c7-8b565e96e39b ?TOP 10? Jaws Might Be The Luckiest Mistake in Film History - https://youtu.be/Nqwb8nsznE4 ?TOP 10? Terminator 2: Judgment Day Is The Most Perfect Action Movie of All Time - https://youtu.be/n6AJTY8LjKQ 13 Le Samourai is Cinema's Original "Cool" Hitman - w/ Special Guest Richard Linklater - https://youtu.be/YS-i-lz9wo0 14 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Is Impossible to Forget - https://youtu.be/-SOktcZbj9I 16 Alien is a B-Movie Done in an A+ Way - https://youtu.be/wWta1u0jPFg 18 Rear Window Is Hitchcock’s Most Technically Impressive Film - https://youtu.be/6oufiKhjphM 20 Has Star Wars' Relentless Retconning Hurt Its Legacy? - https://youtu.be/dETWvs8rXUs 22 RoboCop Features Cinema’s Smartest Shootout in a Cocaine Factory - https://youtu.be/kT71d1WrAnc 23 One of Us Does NOT Like Kill Bill Vol. 1 - https://youtu.be/qMpzjNL7KFk 28 Seven Samurai: Is There a More Influential Action Film? - https://youtu.be/9rDhqmm2Yes 35 They Live is a B-Movie but the B Stands for Brilliant - https://youtu.be/fmSOPuGNpUk 42 The Exorcist Is Still Scary Thanks To Classic Film Trickery - https://youtu.be/vSpN-409FVA 48 Blade Runner 2049 is as Artsy as Big Budget Sci Fi Can Get - https://youtu.be/2s-GgmwrfFA 49 City of God is Eloquent Violence - https://youtu.be/DG43jOFSHSg 51 The Truman Show Makes YOU It’s Main Character - https://youtu.be/37A4f52Sei8 53 Orson Welles Created The 'Star Role' in The Third Man - https://youtu.be/In2tp8HoLh0 56 Sunset Boulevard is STILL a Crazy, Meta Middle Finger to Hollywood - https://youtu.be/ykjfQgN9gd8 STRUCK The Burbs Is Every Suburban American’s Worst Nightmare - https://youtu.be/WkTRAY9m_T0 62 Being There Is Cinema’s Greatest Rorschach Test - https://youtu.be/oXRVDAzQ-xA 63 Raiders of the Lost Ark Was Spielberg Shooting From The Hip - https://youtu.be/ly5Mxq9qcmM STRUCK The Three Amigos Still Holds Up Decades Later - https://youtu.be/DJEgqedUW9E 66 Monty Python and the Holy Grail Makes “Gleeful Skewering” an Art Form - https://youtu.be/T0vedcYNZxk 71 Parasite is Genre-Bending Social Satire At Its Most Metaphorical - https://youtu.be/MhlqplJOzIM 75 Why The Hell is Disney’s Robin Hood Even On This List? - https://youtu.be/w8Zb4O3_hS0 76 Anchorman’s Greatest Gift To Cinema Is How Quotable It Is - https://youtu.be/yz5e94VUbKo 78 Boogie Nights is the Best Horny Boy Family Film Ever Made - https://youtu.be/DYkhtuzdmkg 79 Princess Mononoke Is Beautiful, But Does It Have Rizz? - https://youtu.be/vvkKgXgY10M STRUCK OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies - https://youtu.be/hHKkBCRu0gg 80 Planet of the Apes HAD to Star a Total Jerk - https://youtu.be/qA5rx53dSVw 83 Who Framed Roger Rabbit is Lamp-Bumping Perfection - https://youtu.be/pcT6Kyo1gQI 84 Independence Day is a Goddamn Masterpiece - https://youtu.be/xY-9wBcAXmU 86 Is Toy Story The Most Consequential Movie Ever Made? - https://youtu.be/2tXDvvPBvL0 87 La Haine is Tough Guy Posturing At It’s Best - https://youtu.be/1Pd3RIPiIbs 92 Hot Fuzz Is Covered In Jokes - https://youtu.be/d-K402N2jCc STRUCK - Uncut Gems Is Peak “New York Dirtbag” Cinema - https://youtu.be/ojqlL2C_Xvg 93 Ikiru Might Not Be the First Kurosawa You Think Of But Maybe It Should Be - https://youtu.be/g4e0JPd93es STRUCK The Dark Knight - https://youtu.be/NtiPEVzrqD4 97 Groundhog Day Doesn’t Need to Explain Itself - https://youtu.be/_l8H2r5wLPM 100 The Naked Gun Might Be The Last GREAT Spoof - https://youtu.be/hvtJJ0xLtuc